[Zope-dev] Re: [Vote] PEP308 voting began

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:08:39 +0000


Paul Winkler wrote:
> +sys.maxint
> 
> "ugly" python expressions in ZPT is to me a clear signal that
> you need to refactor and that's a GOOD THING.  And refactoring
> is easy when you can just start by copy / pasting the
> python expressions into a Script.  If they were some
> new-fangled "if: then: else:" syntax in TAL, you'd have to
> rewrite from scratch...  and we're right back in the
> mess we got into with DTML: the poor developer is forced
> to learn many ways of doing the same thing.

+OO (that's infinity in case it's not clear...)

cheers,

Chris